By JESSICA DAMIANO The Associated Press There are many great gifts to give this holiday season, but only the truly special will make the recipient say, “Whoa! Why didn’t anybody think of this before?” These are those gifts — the unexpected, ingenious finds that will seriously delight everyone on...
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By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer ALLISON PARK, Pa. I stood with my mother behind the curtain in the Hampton Township municipal building north of Pittsburgh, watching her pull actual metal levers in an actual voting booth. It was 1976, and she was deciding between Gerald Ford and...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is urging the Trump administration to carry out another wave of strikes on Iran, officials told The Associated Press. Iran said Monday it had a two-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume nuclear talks with the United States. Y...
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By BRYAN CALVERT The Associated Press When your farmers’ market is brimming with winter squash, don’t neglect some of the funkier-looking varieties, like Hubbard squash. It’s a beautiful blue winter squash that grows to be fairly enormous and unwieldly, so you definitely want a b...
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By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON The Houston Astros interviewed a variety of candidates in the search for their next general manager. It quickly became clear that Randy Flores was their guy. “We went over it and over it and over it and as we reflected back on everybody ...
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Midland Health and West Texas Urology announced that it is the only healthcare facility in the Midland/Odessa area to offer Aquablation therapy for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Midland Health is shining the spotli...
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President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating racial, ethnic and sexual information from our nation’s decennial census. He also has repeated his desire to eliminate people without legal residency from the count. The Census Bureau recently issued a notice in the Federal Register...
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NEW YORK (AP) — A chaotic climate phenomenon is intensifying heavy rains and floods in the Southwest, experts say. A natural warming cycle called El Niño is sizzling Pacific Ocean waters, leaking moisture into the air that can fuel passing storms. Such El Niño events can happen i...
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By Veronique de Rugy No matter what happens in Tuesday’s elections, support for wealth taxes keeps growing. Its justification is based on the idea that the very rich owe all of us something, and taxing their fortunes is collecting on that debt. We’re told their success fuels ineq...
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By JOHN RABY The Associated Press Federal authorities in Texas planned to detail their response Monday to a series of shootings in Dallas, one of numerous gun incidents across the nation on Halloween weekend that left at least eight people dead and dozens more injured. Many of th...
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By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer The summer before competing for Olympic medals, elite flag football athletes will have a chance to earn something else — paychecks as pro players. The NFL and TMRW Sports announced Monday the formation of Premier Flag, a new professional league for ...
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The Associated Press A series about Muhammad Ali and a new album from Kings of Leon are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment...
